Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 141 Complaining Conference (Please subscribe!)
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As soon as more than 1000 civilians entered the cafeteria under the escort of the Liangshan infantry in the two capitals, more than 100 Liangshan soldiers and civilians sang Li Yan's "composed" "I Tell My Suffering" together.

This song seems to have a kind of magic power, people can't help but talk!

After all the folks were seated, Zhu Fu, who was specially dressed in plain clothes, stepped forward, and then cut straight to the point: "I will preside over our first grievance meeting in Liangshanbo."

"What is the complaint meeting?"

Not only the civilian husbands brought by the officers and soldiers looked confused, but even the vast majority of Liangshan soldiers and civilians looked confused!
After a pause, Zhu Fu continued: "The so-called grievance conference is to complain about corrupt officials and landlords. Landlords are those outsiders and wealthy households who own a lot of land. Let me talk about the poverty and pain I have suffered. My surname is Zhu Mingfu, and I am from Yishui County. I once opened a small hotel outside the west gate of the county seat. It has become my instinct, and the villagers call me Smiling Tiger, I finally earned some hard money, and I have to be exploited by those corrupt officials..."

What Zhu Fu was talking about was his own personal experience, and it was indeed not easy. However, his experience could not resonate with these farmers, at least not with most farmers. Therefore, Zhu Fu’s complaints were very effective. generally.

Li Yan, who saw all this in the corner, immediately gave Tao Zongwang a wink, signaling Tao Zongwang to come on after a while.

Zhu Fu didn't expect that his meticulous preparation would receive such a mediocre response!
Sighing secretly, Zhu Fu said unwillingly: "Which brother still wants to complain, please come on stage."

Zhu Fu is very smart!
Since the end of the war, Li Yan put aside all other important matters and personally organized this complaining meeting. He was keenly aware that this complaining meeting was very important, and then realized that his opportunity had come, and then he approached Li Yan and took the initiative. Ask Ying to help Li Yan organize this grievance meeting.

Previously, Zhu Fu ran around Liangshan for Shuibo and earned money for Li Yan. Huangfu Duan, Kong Hou, and the Qu family (earned not long ago) got what they deserved. Hosted him and told him in detail how to do it.

After listening to Li Yan's narration, Zhu Fu quickly realized that if he could manage the complaining meeting well, he would definitely be able to enter the core of Shuibo Liangshan.

Therefore, despite the tight time, Zhu Fu still made careful preparations according to his own situation.

pity!

Zhu Fu's world is far from the world of these peasants!
After Tao Zongwang came to the stage, he rubbed his hands, then gritted his teeth, and said, "My name is Tao Zongwang, from Guangzhou. I used to be a farmer. My family has farmed for six lifetimes. I don't gamble or drink. I work every day, but I'm so poor." I don't even have decent clothes, and I can't even marry a wife until I'm 30. I don't understand why, why those wealthy families don't do any work for a whole year, but they just eat well and wear well , dozens of concubines and maidservants, living in the boss's village, I can't figure it out... Four years ago, there was a severe drought, and I went to the well several miles away to water the fields every day from morning to night, but after autumn, I still haven't been able to bring up a few shi of grain, and the officer who eats people and doesn't spit out his bones doesn't understand my hardship at all, so he ran to my house with a dozen farmers and took away all the few shi of grain, and didn't leave it to me. The way to survive, that's all, he still wants to use my sister to pay off the debt, if my mother can bear this, my mother is not a man, I will shoot that member to death with a shovel, and then live in the rivers and lakes..."

Speaking of the past, Tao Zongwang couldn't help but shed tears from the corners of his eyes, but he still didn't know it, and he continued to talk about his suffering experience.

Unlike Zhu Fu, what Tao Zongwang, who was born as a farmer in Zhengzheng Miaohong, said, immediately resonated with the peasants!

As soon as Tao Zongwang finished speaking, someone said:
"I will never forget the severe drought four years ago. Under the persecution of Wang Dahu, I had to sell my daughter to a prostitute to pay the rent!"

"Your family is pretty good. At least you have a daughter to sell. My family doesn't even have anyone who can sell it. Three people died of starvation!"

"Sometimes I just can't figure it out, why am I so tired and live like a dog?"

"..."

All the folks said to each other, and after a short time, the folks who had a real sad experience started to cry!

At this time, a civilian husband couldn't help but raised his hand and said, "Can I go up and say something?"

Zhu Fu hurriedly said, "Come up!"

The man came to the stage, and before he opened his mouth, he began to cry.

After crying for a long time, the man said while crying: "My father put more than 200 sheep for Shen Dahu in the village, and he can breed more than 100 sheep a year, and each can only be sold for two bucks, but Shen Dahu a year He only gave my father five guan wages, and he didn’t care about food. Besides herding sheep, my father had to carry water for other tasks every day. His back was bent and he fell ill. My father lost his energy when two trees were planted, and he cut his leg with an axe." At this point, the man cried even harder, and after a while, he continued: "My father passed out, when the villagers When he was carried down from the mountain, he was almost dying, and my father wanted to drink a bowl of thick porridge, but there was really no rice in the house." When he said this, the man cried for a long time, and finally Then he went on to say: "My mother went to Shen Dahu's house to borrow a bowl of rice. Shen Dahu said: "You can keep food for dogs and guard the door. What's the use of giving it to you?" When my mother came back, my father swallowed it. I was so angry that I didn’t have a mouthful of hot food until I died, and I didn’t even have a coffin for burial.” The man couldn’t go on anymore, and burst into tears...

At this time, the man was crying on stage, and hundreds of people in the audience followed in tears!

Seeing that the fire was almost ready, Li Yan walked onto the stage, then patted the man on the shoulder, and said, "Do you know why your family lives so miserable while Shen Dahu's family lives so comfortably?"

While sobbing, the man asked, "Why... why?"

Li Yan said: "You go down first, and I will tell you why."

After the man went down, Li Yan said: "We all come from mountains, south and seas, but we all suffer from the same suffering, we all suffer from the same cold, hunger, humiliation and beatings. This proves that there are two kinds of people in the world, one is oppressors." , one is people who are oppressed, and we are the latter kind of people! What is exploitation, and what is being exploited? Let me give you an example, I have a brother, his name is Song Wan, and he is Dagang at the foot of the mountain. Villagers, their village has a total of 240 mu of land, of which 720 mu belong to the Qian Baozheng family in their village. Among the more than 200 households in the village, more than 160 households are tenants of the Qian Baozheng family. People are just like you. They don’t have enough to eat, don’t wear warm clothes, work too much, and sleep less. However, Qian Baozheng’s family can get something for nothing. Why?"

After looking around, Li Yan directly gave the answer: "The reason why they can live such a luxurious life, but everyone is struggling to survive, is because they shamelessly exploited the fruits of our labor..."

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(End of this chapter)